Russian television worked like a psychoactive agent, a hallucinogen. As Nevzorov wrote, “Patriotic hallucinations are aggressive, hysterical and persistent. . . . One must remember the ideological drug [of patriotism] is injected into the country’s veins for one main purpose: so that, at the first click of the fingers of any idiot in military stripes, crowds of boys voluntarily agree to turn into burned and rotting meat.”
